📯 Nominations for the AusSTS Best Paper Prize are now open!!
🏆 A prize to celebrate the best scholarship in the region by a junior scholar. Published and unpublished manuscripts accepted
💌 Self-nominations strongly encouraged
AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨
The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.
The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST).
Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026
AusSTS CFP out now! Get your ‘Antipodean Interruptions’ in for this November at Wellington Uni/Te Herenga Waka.
Read all about it at our slick new website - aussts.org 👀🙂↕️
Stay tuned for the full CPF in the new year
A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!
Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...
CFP for AusSTS closes today - remember to get your signals in!! 📶 🚨 aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including
Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!
Deadline 14 March
Excited to discuss 'the face of the child and the face of the corpse' tomorrow at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for the 'Irresistible Decay' conference! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc... (might recommend a trigger warning for the conference booklet; you can probably guess the kind of thing featured! 😅)
Finally on day 3 there will be a keynote panel on noise within health, including Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney) @wombatscholar.bsky.social Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social (University of Bath) and Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social (Deakin). 5/
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
🚨 AusSTS2025 submissions close in 10 days! Submit a paper, present your work creatively in a poster or Making and Doing installation, pre-submit a short paper to workshop at the conference, and/ or get an STS-adjacent crew together by proposing a meet- up 👭💞
Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is now open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July
Deadline for proposals: 14 March
Shout out to co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social
The next AusSTS is so soon. Come join us in Melbourne. Cfp is live at: aussts.org/aussts-2025-... #STS
Serresians and Cageians warmly invited to corrupt our channels! #aussts2025 🪱🔕😅
CFP for #AusSTS2025 is out - this year we're picking up 'signals and noises'! Excited to be co-convening, and can't wait to see everyone in July at Deakin Downtown and the National Communication Museum (in Narrm/Melbourne). More at aussts.org/aussts-2025-... - please get in touch with any questions!
Thanks so much to @thaophan.bsky.social for putting together our AusSTS & friends starter pack - go.bsky.app/DR3Tptg
I use materials from the Canguilhem archives to show how he reworks material for the 1971 essay from his '55-56 seminar on 'Science and Error', and read 'On Science and Counter-Science' as both a critique of Hyppolite's account of error, as well as a tribute from Cang to his departed friend...
'On Science and Counter-Science' is a really remarkable late essay from Canguilhem - one I hope to see in translation soon!
Canguilhem takes up the problematic of error, positioning it as caught between the twin poles of Cartesian correction and Nietzschean affirmation...
Title page and abstract for the linked article, on Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite'
I've now uploaded a open access version of a piece from last year - Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite' philarchive.org/rec/ONEETA
📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡
9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm
Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social
Ful CFP coming soon!
Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...
A great article on the scandal that shocked the world! Is this the end of Kochie's career? Click the link below to find out more...
A figure from an academic article on conspiracy scholarship. The figure's caption describes the image in this way: "Typical example of scam ad featuring an image of Australian television presenter David Koch photoshopped to appear as though he had been arrested on live television"
Abstract for an academic article entitled 'conspirituality and online scam ads'. The abstract begins: Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects with current forms of commercial “conspirituality” that thrive on social media platforms, inviting users to suspend their disbelief in miracle cures and get-rich-quick schemes. The scam ads we examined mobilize critiques of existing social and economic inequality to enhance the appeal of the false solutions they offer. Following recent work on conspirituality, the article draws upon Jacques Ranciere’s notion of “dissensus” to analyze the ways in which the style and content of scam ads invite a form of “conspiracy believing” that challenges common sense understandings...
New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌
Abstract for ASCP paper 'I prefer the letter' - In various lists of 'Interviews with Jacques Derrida' we find an intriguing early encounter with Bernard Stiegler - 1984's 'Questions à Jacques Derrida', published in the experimental arts journal 'Digraphe'. Despite the significance of each thinker in their own right, and in relation to each other's philosophical path, this interview has never been republished, or collected, or translated. This is probably because the encounter did not really take place. The 'interview', as published, was merely a set of questions - really more like six theses from Stiegler on Derrida's grammatology, in an era in which Stiegler argues that "all writing has 'become' media". After the first 'question', on the relation between doxa and paradox in Derrida's thought, Stiegler 'concedes' that "I'm not really expecting a response". Indeed, the piece features no reply from Derrida - Stiegler was essentially 'interviewing' an empty chair, as it were. And yet, buried in the Derrida archives at UC Irvine, we find that Derrida did in fact respond to Stiegler's questions. His reply, a letter beginning with the line 'I Prefer the Letter', was written several months too late - and indeed was ultimately never published. Here I consider the stakes of this non-encounter, as a kind of dress rehearsal for their later (non-)encounter in (non-)real-time in 'Echographies of Television' (1996/2002).
Photograph of a young Bernard Stiegler with the caption 'L'eidos, c'est le flux'
Front cover of the May 1984 edition of the journal Digraphe
Big Saturday preparing my paper for next week's Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference - I'll be discussing the strange circumstances around Bernard Stiegler's first published piece, the misleadingly titled 'Questions for Jacques Derrida', and Derrida's (non)-response...
